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Did God create darkness?@thedarkwanderer: If you refer to Einstein, energy and mass can be tranformed into each other, but you don't have mass and energy on both sides of the equation. To claim "mass contains energy" is not the right expression. If you have an atomic bomb, you either have the mass of nuclear material or you have the energy of the explosion, but not both at the same time. The equations allow you to calculate the amount you can get.

Is the Bible literally the word of God?It is the word of god, but of course only of the christian god. Since there are more translations, there is one God per bible, for example the King George God, the Luther God and so on. If you want to be absolutely sure, you have to write a bible yourself.

Jul15

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To enjoy the site is the most important aim of it?

Feb13

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Did God create darkness?The universe is not 'made up of time, space and matter'. You can't handle them like the ingredients of a cake, since matter can't exist without space and time. If you insist in doing so, you are missing energy. But whether the universe is made at all is disputed even in Christianity. More so, your picture of somebody, creating something is completly taken from the physical world. That there must be a creator, or that a spirit exists beyond time and space is pure speculation. That a creating entity has to exist outside is not foundet at all.

Did Christians stop the practice of Berith (Brith, Bris?) immediately?Thanks for the good answer, but I'm not asking for me, so I would prefer a more neutral explanation. "If Christians truly believe, then they do not need ...". But this is a pattern of the whole place here, that people constantly talk about "we" and not about "Christians", as if everybody was a Christian.

How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects?A minor problem with your question is, that the age of the universe is &asymp; 14 billion years, right? And it's size is 78 billion light years - isn't it? But according to your theory, it must be either 28 billion ly in size at maximum (if the material is travelling with the speed of light) or 39 billion years old at least, or both numbers are wrong, or something with your theorie :) . I asked myself for the explanation of this, but I can't reproduce the answer - it isn't easy to get into the mind.

Sep17

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Why is the number three special?Yes. Smaller numbers occur more often than higher numbers, and two repetitions might be random, or be used, if somebody does not understand - it is repeated - once. 3 statements, one original with 2 repetitions are a ritual, but 3 repetitions start to be annoying and boring. In (1,2,3)(2,4,6)(1,4,9) you may find a pattern - in (1,4) - what pattern is it? But did you count the occurences of 2 (2 Emaus followers, 2 animals in Bethlehem, 2 criminals on other crosses) and 4 and 5, to compare them to 3? Maybe No. 3 is not so special?

Sep11

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What is the Bible and Christian view on Astrology?Well - they interpreted some facts out of the observation of stars, which don't fit into modern science. I don't know how long they travelled to reach Bethlehem, but I guess it was more than a single day, but weeks or months. Due to the rotation of earth, a comet is not at a fixed position on the sky, so you can't just travel in that direction, and look, what you find.

Sep11

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Exorcisms: effective remedy or historical curiosity?Well - that could lead to a lengthy discussion, how mental illness is the product of a defining process of the society. I don't believe in an objective definition of health in the context of brain, consciousness and identity. I can recommend Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique – Folie et déraison, 1961 and Norbert Elias, Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation, Basel, 1939.

Sep10

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What do Christians mean by “holy”?I accept this as a competent and right answer, while it doesn't satisfy me, but that's my fault, in not preparing my question well enough. I updated it with some definition from a dictionary, which is very close to what you wrote, and emphasized my problem with the practical usage of the term.